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I understand the right to free speech but there needs to be a clear line drawn. Protesting at a funeral is not only tasteless but should, in my opinion, be considered an obstruction. If they want to protest let them do it several blocks away to avoid obstructing the normal activities of the funeral.

I have a tendency to simplify things but then I believe life in general is simple, it just gets complicated by the idiots. For example free speech. Some how we have arrived at the interpretation that we all have the right to be total jerks to each other even is its offensive, but the same free speech does not allow religion/god to be mentioned in certain environments. So how is it become so important religion be stricken from these environments, but yet we site free speech to protect a group of obvious jerks to attend this funeral? My knack at simplifying things tells me since it makes no sense at all, it must be politically motivated.

Do we really believe free speech was intended to protect to right to be jerks to each other? No, but because the Constitution was written, probably with the belief that surely future Americans would know its true intent, simply allowing different interpretations we now protect the right to be jerks and yet can't understand why America is full of jerks. :shakes head: Maybe it take a PHD to understand this but I believe its simply politically motivated.

Like the separation of church and state, another abused thought of our founding fathers, we seem to choose to ignore the obvious intent for no more reason than to protect the right to be jerks to each other. Do we really believe our founding fathers intended this to remove religion/god from any state environment such as schools? No, in my opinion you'd need to be an idiot to believe so. Everything from our money to our national anthem mentions god and yet somehow we are lead to believe it doesn't belong. Give me a break already. This is clearly politically motivated.

So my point is, if picking and choosing our own interpretation of the constitution is normal practice and is clearly allowed, why don't we just decide that free speech has limitations under certain circumstance? I'm mean clearly a Phelps protest at a funeral has nothing to do with free speech and everything to do with just simply being a jerk at the worst possible time.